anything from ww2 on the farm?

[andybk]

Big line of concrete tank traps (cubes about 5' square ) jcb wont move them , 2 or 3 pill boxes ,

 

[Wurzeetoo]

@76masseyman not sure if I’ve missed it previously but any chance of some pictures of your collection? You’ve got some amazing pieces from what I’ve seen. I had the throttle lever pushed at me recently from a downed spitfire, made me feel fair dizzy holding it thinking about it’s history

 

[76masseyman]

@76masseyman not sure if I’ve missed it previously but any chance of some pictures of your collection? You’ve got some amazing pieces from what I’ve seen. I had the throttle lever pushed at me recently from a downed spitfire, made me feel fair dizzy holding it thinking about it’s history

Lancaster prop’ blade, a wheel including hub recovered from the same aircraft, and mounted on a frame. Single smooth tread Lancaster tyre, one of two I saved, the second one was given to another museum.
There are 17 complete Lancasters in preservation around the globe, not one of them is on original tyres.

 

[76masseyman]

@76masseyman not sure if I’ve missed it previously but any chance of some pictures of your collection? You’ve got some amazing pieces from what I’ve seen. I had the throttle lever pushed at me recently from a downed spitfire, made me feel fair dizzy holding it thinking about it’s history

Also have a Marconi radio set, bomb aimers selector switch panel and bomb release button, escape axe, navigators computer ( did belong to my dads uncle ) Merlin exhaust stub and a couple of gauges.
Best thing though was having the privilege to meet some of the aircrew and ground crew from that era and hearing about it all first hand, priceless.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

@76masseyman. Brilliant thanks, You have a great collection

 

[Kidds]

Oh heck!
I scrapped a tyre very similar to that when I tidied up a couple of years back.

 

[Pasty]

My dad has a bit of bent aluminium that he swears is from a Zeppelin that crashed. Maybe the Hindenburg. Or it might be from a can of special brew. My nephew went out metal detecting last week and came back with a clutch plate, some nails and a fencing stake. Does any of this mean I am minted?

 

[Scholsey]

Had a old tree with initials of the italian POWs who worked on the farm, it fell down early 90s, probably not helped by the whittling Italians handy work, we saved the piece of bark but its long gone now, wish made more of a effort to preserve it.

 

[Pasty]

Interesting. We had an old oak fall a few years back. Well inside was a bull ring which I think I still have somewhere. Mrs Smith who had the estate was a keen bull breeder. Killed the chain on my saw.

 

[Flatlander]

Got a pair of Spitfire wheels on an old bale elevator. Dad knew someone who worked in the Supermarine factory locally, and he got them for him to replace the elevator's original ones, which were a bit puny. Elevator is now rated to tow up to 100mph (spitfire landing speed)!

Also several of my hay trailers have floors made of timber from the folding doors on a WW2 vintage hanger on the nearby airfield, the hangers are still there but used for industrial uses, they replaced all the doors about 20 years ago with fixed sheeting, and let me have the old doors. The timber was in superb nick, really good quality pine. The weird thing was the doors were huge, about 30 feet long, but made in laminated fashion from planks - there were no large structural timbers in them at all, just all planks screwed together. The work that went into them was immense.

When they refurbed the hangers they also cleared some large heaps of soil that had always been next to them and uncovered this:
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Air raid shelters for the aircrew to run into straight from the hanger. Reinforced concrete was proving a bit hard for the JCB demolishing them and I snapped these pics before they managed to finish them off.

Where in wiltshire are theses hangers. my uncle farmed near to yatesbury airfield back in the day. He had a mortuary in the corner of one field that was for trainee pilots that failed. Was lined with lead until my dad and uncle stripped it after the war ended lol.

 

[Lowland1]

Up until last year we had two 1917 army huts built from Canadian Maple that we had dismantled and rebuilt as weaner houses on the farm. Both had been lived in up until the early 1980's. We also had another prefab building my Dad had removed from RAF Digby in the early 70's that we used as a farrowing house. We also had a bomb trailer we used to move our crawlers up the road and an old muck trailer has WD tyres on it.

 

[BredRedHfd]

Had a old tree with initials of the italian POWs who worked on the farm, it fell down early 90s, probably not helped by the whittling Italians handy work, we saved the piece of bark but its long gone now, wish made more of a effort to preserve it.

40 odd years ago, dad climbed a sycamore tree to cut a bough. On top in the bark were inscribed the words 'I hate Hitler', likely by a young villager..

 

[Lazy Sod]

Does any of this mean I am minted?

Only if you grow it in the garden

 

[76masseyman]

Found another date scribed into the concrete, we already know of another. Sorry for the red to the right of it, but it didn’t show up to well on the camera !

 

[bluebell]

Where we live, wickford essex, theres a rich history, of aircraft, bombs, zeppelin, etc, my dad told me a story long ago about a german plane that came down in a field just up the road in ww2, he was about 7-8 had a older brother, now dead, they remember the ammunition, going off? we grew up in the 1960-70s, fishing in bomb, v2 v1 craters that crashed in fields round here, one pond in particular had the german v2 parts sticking out, we used to sit fishing on it? An old boy told me that as a child he could here the sound of artillery fire from ww1 wofting on the breeze? Another now long dead, man remembered as a child the zeppelin coming down at billericay essex? One last memory as a child in the 1960s i remember seeing in the sky ww2 spitfires etc, they were making the film "the battle of britian", my father set the type on the chewing cards that came with the chewing gum/ Does any one on here remember the ABC bubble/chewing gum and the cards that came with them, there was a set to collect about the american civil war, you also got a civil war bank note i remember?

 

[colhonk]

Got a (most of ) pillbox and a concrete floor of a hut that was used for storing amunition and medical supplies.
There was a searchlight and camp here.

 

[John Deere 8530]

This isView attachment 555668 the Morrison air raid shelter that was issued to my father during the war, with several bits that I added for various reasons. We used it as a workshop bench for many years until I sold it on Ebay to a military collector a few years ago, for £21.

Still got one in our workshop, used as a bench daily. Will get a photo tomorrow if I remember.

 

[Barleymow]

Still got one in our workshop, used as a bench daily. Will get a photo tomorrow if I remember.

Me too very good to weld things on

 

[John Deere 8530]

Me too very good to weld things on

Does this now class me as a sustainable and environmentally friendly farmer?

 

[Cowlife]

Output prices?